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Musicians Mentoring Musicians - Authors Connecting - The Art of Masquerade - Artist Resource Center - Body of Vibration Limbo, Dance & Theater - Spirit of the Arts Award - Award of Excellence - Stilt Walking - Voices - Steel Pan - The Art of Photo & Video.

School Cultural Programming : PS 135 & IS 392

Senior Program: Prospect Hill Neighborhood Senior Center

Senior Porgram: St Augustine’s Senior Center

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Today: June 22th Patricia Meschino interview with author Dr. Rudolph Ottley live 8 p.m. The program will be streamed live on Facebook, YouTube, twitch, Periscope, Linked, Instagram and Tropicalfete.com.

Dr. Rudolph Ottley is a calypso historian and have penned 13 books on the subject such as "Women in Calypso, Calypsonians From Then to Now and much more. Interviewer: Patricia Meschino Tropicalfete Board member and Journalist with credits such as Billboard Magazine, SkyWritings, Bobmarley.com, The Associated Press, NPR, etc

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Canadian based author Liselle Sambury. The titled of her book is "Blood Like Magic." Her brand of writing can be described as “messy Black girls in fantasy situations.” Interviewer: Keishel Williams is a literary writer and journalist whose work can be seen in The Washington Post, Business Insider, Atlas Obsura, Literary Hub, The Rumpus, BET.com, and more.

1. June 1st Ashley Murray interview/reading with author Dr. Kim Johnson (See video Online)

2. June 3rd Keran Deterville interview/reading with author & artist Anslem Douglas (See video Online)

3. June 8th Gayrleen Orange interview author and chef Nadege Fleurimond (See video Online)

4. June 10th Gillian Fortune, Nature & Tilia interview - ventriloquist Geltown (See video Online)

5. June 15th Janeen Pottinger interview with author Yolanda Lezama-Clark & Dawad Philip (See video Online)

6. June 17th Melissa Noel interview with author Tai Abrams (Assemblywoman Latrice M. Walker (NY-55 will also join the conversation for a few minutes about her Little Library project) (See video Online)

7. June 20th Genevieve Farrell & Erin interview with Garvin Johnson author & artist (Rescheduled)

8. June 22nd Patricia Meschino interview with author Dr. Rudolph Ottley (Today)

9. June 23th - Keishel Williams interview with author Liselle Sambury (Wednesday)

Coming UP

Tropicalfete's SteelPan Ensemble - Music Releases (6/21/2021 )

Tropicalfete 's Cultural Reading Progran Author's Connecting (All of June)

Senator Roxanne J. Persaud Caribbean Event 6/26/2021

Far Rockaway Cultural Fest 6/26/2021

Tropicalfete's Pop up Cultural Showcase (End of June)

Intrernational Reggae Day featuring live bands July 1st.

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Father and Dauther:

🔹 Teacher Ashley and her father doing extempo The fruit does not fall far from the tree. Like father like daughter happy Father’s Day from Tropicalfete #fathersday #calypso #extempochallenge #extempo #culture #music #father

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Steel Pan After School

🔹 A little Steel Pan music history in the after school program at PS135..

Students played Old McDonald’s had a Farm and When the Saints Go Marching In

Donation

🔹 Thanks Jade donating this steelpan to us. Your gift is greatly appreciated. #steelpan #tenor #steeldrum #pan #culture #donation #community #gift

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Thanks for Supporting Us

New York State Council on the Arts

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Materials for the Arts

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NYC Council Majority Leader Laurie A. Cumbo

NYC Council Member Alicka Ampry-Samuel

NYC Council Member Farah N. Louis

NYS Council Member Brad Landers

Senator Roxanne Persaud

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Quarantine Activity for All !!! Tropicalfete’s 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle - Caribbean Cultural Classic Edition for Adults and Kids, Educational Fun Game. This is not only a jigsaw puzzle but it comes with a fact sheet on Caribbean history, geography and culture. Product is now available on amazon for purchase. Gift wrap available. Order now to support us with our mission. We guarantee you will be satisfied with this product.

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Serving all New Yorkers with programming & events in: Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Bedford Stuyvesant, Park Slope, Flatbush, Brownville, East New York, Canarsie, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Harlem, Lower Manhattan and expanding.